Stay With Me
by Faces
- 91
- BPM
- A major
- Key
- 11B
- Camelot
- 45
- Danceability
- 5
- Acousticness
"Stay with Me" was the only big American hit Faces ever had. Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood wrote it. It came from the band's third album, A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse, in 1971. It reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 6 in the UK and number 4 in Canada. The lyrics follow a woman named Rita, and a singer who proposes a one-night stand on the condition that she is gone when he wakes up.
Other acts took it up later. Stewart reunited with Wood in 1993 for MTV Unplugged and recorded a live version. Def Leppard covered it on their album Yeah!, and singer Joe Elliott said Phil Collen sang it in his best Rod Stewart impression while Elliott played the Fender Rhodes and Vivian Campbell played slide guitar in the style of Wood. Train covered it on their 2004 album Alive at Last. McFly put it on the B-side of "Do Ya" in 2007 for Children in Need, and Mary J. Blige recorded it in 2019 for the soundtrack of The Umbrella Academy.
Faces had formed in London in 1969, after Steve Marriott left Small Faces and the rest of that group took on Stewart and Wood.
Stay With Me runs at 91 BPM, the tempo of hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.64 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 659 ms. It is in A major, Camelot 11B, which shares its notes with F# minor and mixes cleanly with D major and E major.
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